It’s debatable among Jean-Pierre Melville buffs if this heist masterwork is his best film, considering the weight of “Le Samourai” and “Army of Shadows”, but it does feature one of the best heist scenes in film history, a nearly 30-minute jewelry store heist that is so accurate, fits so perfectly into the film’s primary characterizations, that the mechanics of it all become less about money and more about pure perfection. Criterion’s great two-disc DVD features numerous on-set interviews with Melville and mega-stars Yves Montand and Alain Delon, while a French documentary shows us a day in the life of Melville at his studio office and country home. I shudder to think of the proposed Johnny To remake currently in the works, starring Liam Neeson and Orland Bloom; we barely escaped Neil Jordan’s “Bob le Flambeur” remake “The Good Thief”, thanks to a superb Nick Nolte, why not let Melville and his super cool existential procedural continue to speak for itself?